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I received a Darkoath Warqueen model for my birthday that I want to finish for the Malign Portents painting competition. I decided to try and convert her up a little so that she could lead my Nurgle Slaves to Darkness force. I didn't want to do a really extensive conversion so I did some relatively simple weapon and head swaps. The head was from the Blight King box. The helmet is quite small and if you leave the head off the war queen and cut away the little top knot she has the helmet fitted perfectly over the top of the skull. The helmet looks big, but I think its actually a realistic size - I think a lot of the models with helmets actually look too small, and if the model doesn't have other armour then the helmet should look larger - imagine wearing a motorcycle helmet without any other gear on; it would look very oversized.
The weapon swap was easy - I cut away the hand at the wrist and replaced it with a Plaguebearer sword. Because the cut was flat I just used plastic glue to secure it in place. The war queens shield required a bit more work. I had to cut around the shield arm, trim between the straps and then slice off the front of the shield to leave a flat area where the new shield could go. I chose a Rotbringer shield with a distinctive Nurgle design and clipped of the arm on the back and scraped and sanded it flat, and then just secured it with plastic glue again.
I used superglue to glue her to the tree stump, and secured the tree stump to a 32mm base with superglue. All I need to do now is build up the base with some filler and drop a rock or two on, then she should be ready to undercoat.

3 little chaos warriors sitting in a box
A nice cheap way to get involved with the hobby, also not as open to conversions as other boxes but we still have options
Swapping heads is always quite easy and by using a plume from another unit you can add eldritch fire and make a Wightking with tomb blade
Looks pretty good imo
I used one of the other ones to make an inquisitor
I have one more to go and I'm not sure what I'll turn him into but I'll think if something

So first up we have my chaos lord, the Black Khan. Converted from a varanguard!
Don't get too excited with my love of mongolian naming, not sure if the warband will end up having any mongolian aesthetic to them (though would be great if I could manage to find some ways! Perhaps some nice hats!)
Next we have the darkoath warqueen, she and her marauder march alongside the khan as part of his Warband, interpreting the portents of the gods and cutting down any who stand before their thunderous march! No conversion on this girl as I really like the base model.
Then we have the marauders! These boys have a slightly gladiator theme to them because I saw some conversions done before and then I saw the blood reavers and I couldn't resist making some characterful marauders to bring numbers to the horde!!
Happy with how these guys are turning out so far. I might try adding robe bits to my warrior and knight conversions when I do them. After all what golden horde is complete without horsies??
Might try freehanding the total war mongolian banner symbol onto them when I paint them. Have been wanting some kinda mongolian themed chaos boys and girls for aaaages
Probably going to use knight bodies for the warriors to allow easier posing and converting, will play around and see. Regardless I'm looking forward to having a fun little band!

Hi all,
First time posting here! I've recently started a "Death" army after a few years out of the fantasy scene. Used to play Vampire counts and had over 15,000 points at one point so it's good to be back!
I've a spare Yvraine (Ynnari 40k) model for some time and thought it would be a great base for a female vampire! Without further ado I present Melaina!
Shes not completely finished yet but any constructive criticism or tips are more than welcome! I'll post more pics once compeltely finished!

The chaos cultists have shown up in more blanchitsu articles than almost any other model (lord of plagues being the most common one, the amount of times that guy has shown up is almost comical). So let us see what AOS heroes can be made from within the exceptionally cheap box.
Well the most obvious hero I could think of was the necromancer, with a few skulls, a wildwood ranger head and some other bits, one can make a passable necromancer.
We still have 4 models to go in the box but I'm going to increase my bits box slightly before I commit to any more conversions.
Next time: more chaos cultists

Hey folks,
So I've recently been struck by an interesting idea for some slaanesh conversions. I've been thinking about how I might be able to make some cool mermaid/siren/nautical themed slaaneshi models.
So I'm considering either using greenstuff or waiting for the DoK gorgon models and making some mermaids to function either as hellstriders or as fiends of slaanesh (alternatively spear gorgons could be used for helstriders due to spears & can use daemonette models & sculpt fish tails for the fiends.)
However I'd also like to try and come up with other ideas for demonette and slaanesh models in general to keep the fun nautical theme. Can easily add fish tails and possibly gills onto my seeker mounts but no idea whether there's anything I can do for regular demonettes? (Besides possibly adding the fish bits onto their existing tails like with seekers)
I'm also open to using some 3rd party mini's like reaper for cool characters or monsters e.g. demon princes. Or parts for building some. The main thing is wanting to go for rule of cool so I'm totally open to conversions for units that aren't considered too good as I'd love to have characterful models regardless

I've been thinking about the Free Cities of Order, and, a Chaos player myself, thought about converting a city for my Tzeentch.
The effective background is this: a city in Ulgu, the citizens of which believe in Tzeentch as religion, and as such a vast horde of arcanites have amassed in the area. The city, known as Strayhelm, is populated bu aelfs, humans and Stormcast, all of which have felt the corrupting power of The Architect flow through their veins.
If you have any ideas about a non-order free city please post them, so anything from a lumbering orruk tribe situated on the back of the very first aleguzzler gargant to the not-quite alive citizens of a corpse-farming city in Shyish...

I've changed my mind of the blood warriors from storm of sigmar, they make good blightkings with some green stuff for a belly, and a helmet and weapon swap. Also here is our wight king converted from the other blood warrior.

you see plague marines? i see a multitude of options... buy multitude i mean 3
with 3 easy to build plague marines and some bits and too much time with a damn pocket knife and pair of clippers one can create
a Lord of blights
A lord of Plagues
And a putrid blightking
Or just 3 putrid blightkings, with more skill and some green stuff these options could be even better.
Cost of the official models
Lord of Blights $40 aud
Lord of Plagues $22 aud
Putrid blightkins $18 per model (box of 5 for $40)
our cost $25 plus bits

The storm of sigmar box is a good value little box and pretty decent gateway drug into age of sigmar, unfortunately all the models within are of the "easy to build" variety and i thought had limited options for conversion, That was until i started tearing them to Pieces and cutting all their limbs and heads off.
So what parts do i have out of the box
2 retributors
3 Liberators
3 Blood Warriors
5 Blood Reavers
What can we make out of these?
Firstly the stormcast models are all sort of based around the same set of Chassis either a liberator or retributor body and from that base we can build quite a few of the stormcast heroes
Firstly, the most easy is the knight questor
We can see that the base is pretty much the liberator prime
So after some cutting and filing and with a spare power sword and a pretty unnecessary head swap
As you can see i did some stuff to the other liberators but they may soon have their bodies scavenger in order to make something else
Next up we have the retributors and they are pretty versatile
Forming the base for the Lord Relictor
and the knight vexillor
Among others but seeing as you only get 2 retributors in the box
As for the bloodbound we've got some fun stuff
you can make lords of chaos or khorne skullreapers
Wight kings
And Sigmar War priests/ excelsior warpriests
So for out of a $55 australian, box I have wrung approximately $232 aud of heroes which all look adequately fancy and I've still got a few units to mess around with
As to where this blog is going now, I've got my eyes on the easy to build Plague Marines box and some chaos warrior parts
we'll see where it leads.
Know of any kits that are perfect for turning into other stuff? Know of any kits full of bits I can use? Know of any cheap kits that just kinda maybe look like more expensive ones if you squint? Then tell me in the comments and I'll muck around and see what I can do.

As the title says, I was just thinking that it would be really cool if we invented some scenarios (narrative, matched, open), games (something like Gorechosen, shadespire) and warhammer quests (like those ones in WhiteDwarf)
Mu main idea is a bit like Gorechosen, you get loads of Tzeentch sorcerers (preferably mortal) + any other WIZARDS, and you put them in an arena, maybe invent custom rules and stuff
maybe something like necromunda/mordhiem on a 3d board
let me know if you have any ideas...
S133arcanite

As the title says, I was just thinking that it would be really cool if we invented some scenarios (narrative, matched, open), games (something like Gorechosen, shadespire) and warhammer quests (like those ones in WhiteDwarf)
Mu main idea is a bit like Gorechosen, you get loads of Tzeentch sorcerers (preferably mortal) + any other WIZARDS, and you put them in an arena, maybe invent custom rules and stuff
maybe something like necromunda/mordhiem on a 3d board
let me know if you have any ideas...
S133arcanite

As the title says, I was just thinking that it would be really cool if we invented some scenarios (narrative, matched, open), games (something like Gorechosen, shadespire) and warhammer quests (like those ones in WhiteDwarf)
Mu main idea is a bit like Gorechosen, you get loads of Tzeentch sorcerers (preferably mortal) + any other WIZARDS, and you put them in an arena, maybe invent custom rules and stuff
maybe something like necromunda/mordhiem on a 3d board
let me know if you have any ideas...
S133arcanite